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Credit: Eriks Zambello

Credit: Eriks Zambello

The northern spotted owl, an iconic species in federal lands policy, continues to decline. Over 4,000 invertebrate species have been recorded at AND LTER since 1991. Native climate-sensitive bird species appear to be persisting, despite multi-decade warming, likely because old forests buffer micro-climate.

 

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  1. Betts, MG et al. 2018. Old-growth forests buffer climate-sensitive bird populations from warming. Diversity and Distributions. doi: 10.1111/ ddi.12688

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Lina DiGregorio
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Posted:  July 6, 2020